Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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MAYBE it can be done. They tell us, now that Queen Elizabeth was a man, and hid it from everybody but a chosen few for a matter of half a century. This book, evidently, is an expose of the way she did it, except that, by reverse English, the girl in the book was really a woman...
...American who comes to Oxford at the beginning of Michaelmas Term is likely to wonder why this damp and draughty meeting-place of wintry winds and rains was ever chosen for the seat of a university. While Oxford cannot boast of the yellow, strangling fogs which infest London and turn her days into hideous night, she can offer a specimen of a sort no less disagreeable to newcomers. For a few hours at least during these quiet winter days, a thick white layer is apt to fill the bowl which the Isis and the Cherwell have made between Cumnor, Boars...
...Odeon or Comedie Française. Already half a dozen hit-show theatres supplement this list; and Le Théatrophone seems to have definitely caught on. One typically French restriction is imposed. The subscriber may not switch from one performance to another while the first performance continues. Having chosen his play, he must listen to it or nothing. Operated as an attachment to the regular telephone system of Paris, Le Théatrophone is not to be confused with radio, also popular in France...
...Taylor is the brilliant and scholarship-loving lawyer who, after triumphing in the textile and other businesses; became last January one of the triumvirate chosen to succeed the late Judge Gary as rulers of U. S. Steel (see p. 26). The other two: John Pierpont Morgan, James Augustine Farrell...
...those men who are definitely cortain as to the type of work they wish to enter, every effort will be made to secure contacts in their chosen field and to assist them in the actual securing of positions...